As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS

Not generally well known for his symphonic compositions, I'm listening to Schumann's 1st Symphony in B-flat "Spring" conducted by Leonard Bernstein and performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker. Schumann's symphonies, along with Mendelssohn's, sort of fill the gap between the romanticism of Beethoven and Schubert and the later romanticism of Brahms and Dvorak which which parallels the new leaps being made by Wagner, Bruckner and Mahler.

"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS

Been on a Romantics kick recently. Right now it's Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Eb Major, by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. An adult choir and a children's choir singing together--beautiful stuff.

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"It is remarkable that what we call the world...in what professes to be true...will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtue."--Charles Dickens

Been on a Romantics kick recently. Right now it's Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Eb Major, by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. An adult choir and a children's choir singing together--beautiful stuff.

Mahler, though I've finally started to learn to appreciate some of his music, is really post-Romantic. The last of the Romantics, age wise, was Dvorak.

Been on a Romantics kick recently. Right now it's Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Eb Major, by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. An adult choir and a children's choir singing together--beautiful stuff.

Mahler, though I've finally started to learn to appreciate some of his music, is really post-Romantic. The last of the Romantics, age wise, was Dvorak.

I can see that. I put him in the same category as Debussy and Ravel, composers who began their careers as Romantics, then made the transition to Impressionism. Certainly Mahler's style is a departure from traditional Romantic themes, and I can definitely see him as a bridge between the Romantics and modern composers such as Stravinsky.

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"It is remarkable that what we call the world...in what professes to be true...will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtue."--Charles Dickens

"If you leave me free in my religion, I will be very eager to carry out your commands. But if you try to force me to change my faith, I will first surrender my head. I was born a Christian and a Christian I shall die."

I may be your evil twin, because except for Scorpions, I have the exact opposite taste in music

*LOL* Well, I don't have a distinct genre per se--I just listen to whatever (exceptions being Country, Rap, R & B, and Classical). I love the Scorpions--I do not think there isn't a song by them that they actually released into mainstream that I haven't liked (that's kind of how Def Leppard is with me also).

I've never -had- an evil twin before! Some I did however forget to mention was some Mudvayne and Type O Negative as well.

"If you leave me free in my religion, I will be very eager to carry out your commands. But if you try to force me to change my faith, I will first surrender my head. I was born a Christian and a Christian I shall die."

"For, by its immensity, the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches. Thus we are unable to apprehend it by knowing what it is. Yet we are able to have some knowledge of it by knowing what it is not." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, I, 14.

Oh I know I do too! I have their greatest hits CD here on the shelf. I also heard they are awesome in concert!

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"If you leave me free in my religion, I will be very eager to carry out your commands. But if you try to force me to change my faith, I will first surrender my head. I was born a Christian and a Christian I shall die."